Includes index.

The context of psychiatric nursing practice --
The mental health delivery system and heatlh care team --
Psychiatric nursing and the law --
Current issues affecting the future of psychiatric nursing --
The tools of the psychiatric nursing --
Self --
awareness --
principles of psychiatric nursing --
Effective communication --
Nurse client interactions --
The therapeutic environment --
The nursing process --
Theoretical bases for understanding mental health and mental illness --
General systems theory and stress and adaptation:one conceptual framework --
Psychosocial theories of personality development --
Anxiety:one response to stress --
Biological factors influencing mental health and mental illness --
Cultural factors influencing mental health and mental illness --
The consumers of psychiatric nursing --
Individuals with thought disorders --
Individuals with mood disorders --
Individuals with anxiety disorders --
Individuals with psychophysiological disorders --
Individuals with substance abuse and dependence --
Individuals with personality disorders --
Populations at risk;the elderly --
Populations at risk: children and adolescents --
Populations at risk:the physically ill --
Multidisciplinary psychiatric interventions --
Crisis theory and intervention --
Group theory and intervention --
Family theory and intervention --